asn3: Monday

After a long weekend, a new week has begun. The struggle of the first few days of an adult special needs camp is learning how to communicate with individual campers, just as Paul had to learn to communicate with different groups of people. In 1 Corinthians 9:19-23, Paul writes,

"For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it."

At camp, or in any ministry, we too have to become "all things to all men". We have young children as campers, and special needs adults as campers: the low, the weak and the despised people of our nation. And for the sake of the gospel, we learn to make ourselves as they are -- even making ourselves as their servants, following the example of Christ who made himself a servant to us.